Birth Video

Here's a video clip of little Richie a minute or so after his birth!!! Enjoy

Richard Allen Brock III

Okay people the newest member of our family has arrived and he's doing GREAT. He was born the 23rd, 8:42am, 8lb, 10oz, 21" long! Very little jaundice, hardly enough to worry about. He's wonderful. So sweet and easy going and we're just loving on his cute little face. Had his first doctors appointment today and they're very happy with him.

The hospital was good but scary in a few parts. We of course went in knowing what to expect but we had a little glitch cuz my veins were not doing all that great. So after a few tries the anasthesiologist wanted a dependable vein so he had to go in at my neck with an iv. They did an ultrasound to make sure it was good, numbed the spot and covered my face with the paper and inserted something that Rich describes as a guitar wire I guess. lol We had a few attempts at the spinal as I've gained a lot of weight with this pregnancy cuz of the diabetes... but we got it in. Dr. Harding the anastesiologist was just wonderful and made it much easier for me. This spinal was wierd though, with liv i was numb from insertion down and wide awake during the surgery and crashed for hours after Liv was born. This time i was numb even in my shoulders and was in and out a lot during the surgery. After Richie was born though it wore off and I was actually really coherent after his birth.

I feel so blessed because I actually got to see livie see richie for the first time and video taped it too. lol that was really neat to experience.

Liv really likes baby brother, doesn't really want to touch him a whole lot but sure keeps close track of where he is and keeping him supplied with all sorts of stuff. lol

We got released on Friday and have just been taking it very easy. I am starting to feel pretty good now and only have a few more doses of pain killers. This time I am actually taking all my pain killers because I figured I might have a harder time this time. With Liv i weaned myself off the drugs a day after getting out of the hospital. So I am being good this time. lol

I wanted to get some pictures posted and a short video that Rich took of Richie a few minutes after he was born. I really wanted to get that up as soon as possible so that everyone can see him moments after his birth. Such a special thing. Love to everyone.

July 3, 2008

Forgot to upload a short video that I took of Liv helping her Daddy wash the Tank.

Wow, has it really been 2 weeks?

That went entirely too fast. :-) This whole due date has been so up in the air until this last month of the pregnancy. We only found out a few weeks ago for "sure". And time has FLOWN since then. TOO CRAZY

Not much going on here, just hanging out. Trying to get things done and satisfy my nesting instincts. Which as you all know if frustrating the life out of me since I'm on bedrest.

Rich has been just great. (I HATE asking for help even with simple little things, but as part of life's growing process I know it's something that I need to conquer personally.) He helps me remember all sorts of things and is always jumping up and taking care of things before I can. I love that he's so pro-active and takes the initiative. He works so much that I hate asking him to do simple stuff for me all evening when he comes home. Doesn't feel right. But he seems to want to, and it's cute because he just keeps getting more and more excited about the baby coming. He says he's ready already. lol

Just a few days now. Doesn't seem real. Because everything has been so up in the air I don't feel like it has really sunk in. Now it's coming so fast I almost feel like I'm not ready and havn't had time to adjust to it. lol But i'll be adjusting soon enough huh? lol lol :-)

Dad and Steve get in this Sunday. Although Steve's had tickets in hand there's been problems at his work with staffing. So until yesterday he's not known for sure if he was going to be able to come. I was so upset and was feeling really terrible for him. I felt awful that he might not have been able to be here for the baby coming and the fact that he hasn't seen Liv since Christmas.

Rich's mom is able to make a trip up here too and for a long weekend too which is great. She'll get in on the first Sat of August and gets to stay until Tuesday afternoon. Liv is so excited and is really looking forward to her visit.

Monday we've got a pre-op appointment with Dr. Souri, a pre-op appointment at the hospital and our last non-stress test. Rich will work on Tuesday and then we are scheduled for a 7:30 c-section on Wednesday. I am excited and just working on working my to do list down!!

Prob won't write again, but the hospital has free wi-fi so I promise Rich will send out an email that evening or the next morning with a bunch of pictures!!! Love to everyone.

Countdown

So, we've got a date scheduled for a c-section on July 23rd!!!!! We're so excited and can't believe we finally have a countdown and it's less than 3 weeks now. There are a few factors of course, my gestational diabetes which is pretty under control now and the high blood pressure I seem to have developed. Correction, by nature I am a professional worry wart and stresser so my blood pressure usually runs a little high, but right now I am spiking REALLY high. lol :-)

I'm now on bedrest and just as long as the blood sugars stay good and I don't develope Preclampsia (sp?) then we remain on schedule. Dr. Souri has warned us that if they get wacky we will pull the baby early as these are a larger danger to the little one than possible fluid in the lungs. I have faith that everything should go along just fine. Last week at all my doctors appointments my blood pressure was still high but much better than I had been running the week before. yeah!!!

Livie is doing really well but is worried about me. This is the only part I hate. We downplay everything and smile through all my insulin shots and finger pricks but she still gets upset a little. Now that I am laying down all the time she's sticking really close. I have THE most sensitive sweet little girl born to God's green earth. She's always asking if i'm okay, if i'm tierd, if i am drinking from my water bottle she just runs over and helps hold it, if i try to shift around on the couch she always runs over and tries to help. Every few minutes she will run over and give me repeated kisses or gives me eskimo kisses, or just wants to sit on the couch next to my head and talk and talk about all sorts of stuff. I am so proud and love my little girl so much for the great person she is already and she's not even 3 yet. But I hate seeing her worried, and I can't stop it. I stay as upbeat as possible and tease and play with her from the couch as much as possible, we don't use the words sick or anything that will worry her, but somehow she seems to know.

I can't wait to have baby boy and complete our little family. I can't wait to be healed up so that I can play with Livie again. I look so forward to being able to lay on the floor with both of my kids and interact and play with them both. Livie keeps asking more and more about baby brother and has started asking when he's going to come out of my tummy. It's really neat. It's neat to KNOW that she's going to be a great big sister.